This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This 19th-century Hamptons windmill was once home to modernist painter Agnes Pelton.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

The largest collection of Frazetta originals in the world.

Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.

An upstate New York garage advertises its services by literally putting the automobile above all else.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.